Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
JESSE JACKSONHe should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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